6. The Black Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-144
Keyword(s):  
Black Movement

scholarly journals RELIGIÃO E IDENTIDADE CULTURAL NEGRA: AFRO-BRASILEIROS, CATÓLICOS E EVANGÉLICOS

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Black Identity ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="abstract">Nas últimas décadas, vários grupos religiosos têm se posicionado sobre a relação entre “identidade negra”, cultura e religião. Neste ensaio, pretendo apresentar algumas tendências do debate contemporâneo entre o campo religioso afro-brasileiro, o movimento negro católico e o evangélico. Sugiro que esse debate se constrói a partir de posições gestadas nas relações de uns com os outros e com as políticas públicas voltadas para a patrimonialização dos símbolos das heranças africanas no Brasil.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>:<strong> </strong>religiões afro-brasileiras - catolicismo - evangélicos - <br /> movimento negro - identidade negra.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>In recent decades, various religious groups have positioned themselves with regard to the relationship between “black identity”, culture and religion. In this essay, I present some trends in the contemporary debate between the African-Brazilian religious field, the black Catholic and evangelical movements. I suggest that this debate is constructed from gestated positions in relation to each other as well as the public policies directed towards the patrimonialization of symbols of African heritage in Brazil.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>:<strong> </strong>African-Brazilians religions - Catholicism - evangelicals -<br />black movement - black identity</p>

Dynamics of Idealism: White Activists in a Black Movement.

Social Forces ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Davod Gottlieb ◽  
N. J. Demerath III ◽  
Gerald Marwell ◽  
Michael T. Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Black Movement

RACIAL CHANGE AND BLACK MOVEMENT EMERGENCE: A CASE FROM THE BLACK LIVES MOVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-455
Author(s):  
George Weddington
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Prison Reform ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Racial Change ◽  
Black Movement

This article contributes to sociological understandings of race and social movements by reassessing the phenomenon of social movement emergence for Black social movements. Broadly, it addresses the possibility of organizational support for Black social movements. More narrowly, it seeks to understand the emergence of Black movements and racial change as outcomes of organizational transformation, specifically using the case of how the mixed-race prison reform organization Action for Police Reform (APR) joined the Black Lives movement. By providing a case of racial transformation and the spanning of tactical boundaries, I present two central arguments. First, it is necessary to look within organizational forms and at organizational dynamics to see how activists modify their organizations to support Black movements. Second, tailored more directly to the case of APR, sustained support for Black movements depends on organizational transformation, such as when activists repurpose an organization’s form and resources to maintain racially delimited tactics.

Democratizing memory and the question of Black difference in Brazil (ca. 1980–1988): The transformation of the Serra da Barriga (Alagoas), from haunted “Black territory” to national memorial in the transition between dictatorship and democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1362-1381
Author(s):  
Moritz Peter Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Racial Integration ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Politics Of Culture ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
A Site

By voiding the previous social pact, including the predominant conception of racial integration, the Brazilian military regime (1964–1985) created the conditions for a radical understanding of Black difference, which found its leading motif in the memory of the Quilombo of Palmares, a historical community of rebel slaves. A new Black movement understood its cultural and historical experience as containing a utopian legacy, an alternative for a Brazil marked by racism and inequality. To overcome its problems of legitimation, the regime set into motion a process of gradual democratization. The need to symbolically and culturally accomplish this transition created an institutional breach for the memory politics of the Black movement. In this context, the inclusion of the Serra da Barriga, a site of the war against Palmares, into national cultural heritage became the testing grounds for novel politics of culture that changed both the understanding of Brazilian nationhood and Black difference, as represented in the memory of Palmares.

March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well (bem viver), Brasilia 20151

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 513-521
Author(s):  
Claudia Ferreira ◽  
Adriana Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Mixed Gender

Abstract These three brief pieces formed part of a two-part special issue (vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, 2016) on Afro-Descendant Feminisms in Latin America. The unprecedented nationwide mobilizational process that culminated in the first-ever Marcha das Mulheres Negras contra o Racismo e a Violência e pelo Bem Viver (Black Women’s March against Racism and Violence and for Living Well), which brought tens of thousands of Black women to Brasília on November 18, 2015, is described in an opening essay by Alvarez. It is followed by one of the several Manifestos produced by Marcha organizers, which captures the core political and theoretical issues discussed in hundreds of events across every sector of Afro-descendant women’s activism and women from the mixed-gender Brazilian Black movement as well. Finally, a photo essay by Brazilian photographers Claudia Ferreira and Adriana Medeiros offers a vivid glimpse into what many consider a watershed moment in the Afro-Brazilian feminist movement.

The Garbage Offensive

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Johanna Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Black Panthers ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
East Harlem ◽  
Young Lords ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Definition Of

In summer of 1969, the NY Young Lords launched an ambitious course of community-based protests, involving thousands of residents in East Harlem. They addressed many of the social problems underscored, but unsolved, by the War on Poverty. Their legendary “Garbage Offensive,” name in deference to the Tet Offensive of the Vietnamese, the group barricaded major throughways with East Harlem’s uncollected garbage. It exposed environmental racism and impugned city government for treating Puerto Ricans and Black Americans like garbage. It’s combination of urban guerrilla protest with sharp political messaging pressured politicians to respond, and poor sanitation services became a major issue in the run-up to the heated mayoral elections in November 1969. Although histories of the civil rights and black power movements are popularly understood within the framework of citizenship rights, the work of organizations like the Black Panthers and the Young Lords paint a portrait of struggle that is more composite. They show that the black movement set in motion an awakening of social consciousness wherein virtually no social issue escaped public scrutiny. The Young Lords’ campaigns established standards of decency in city services that expanded the definition of the common good and stretched our nation’s definition of democracy.

scholarly journals Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 816-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kent ◽  
Peter Wade
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Racial Classification ◽  
Race Science ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Biological Category

This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry research, political conflict and social identity. It focuses on the debate on race-based affirmative action policies, which have been implemented in Brazil since the turn of the century. Genetic evidence of high levels of admixture in the Brazilian population has become a key element of arguments that question the validity of the category of race for the development of public policies. In response, members of Brazil’s black movement have dismissed the relevance of genetics by arguing, first, that in Brazil race functions as a social – rather than a biological – category, and, second, that racial classification and discrimination in this country are based on appearance, rather than on genotype. This article highlights the importance of power relations and political interests in shaping public engagements with genetic research and their social consequences.

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